Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality" in English language version.
Of the 1,636 people who responded to a 2013 survey of Less Wrong's readers, one quarter had found the site thanks to HPMoR, and many more had read the book
Many of its serialised chapters directed readers to LessWrong posts about rationalist tenets, and some solicited donations to the Centre for Applied Rationality (CFAR), a Yudkowsky-affiliated institute in Berkeley
Many of its serialised chapters directed readers to LessWrong posts about rationalist tenets, and some solicited donations to the Centre for Applied Rationality (CFAR), a Yudkowsky-affiliated institute in Berkeley
Of the 1,636 people who responded to a 2013 survey of Less Wrong's readers, one quarter had found the site thanks to HPMoR, and many more had read the book
Yudkowsky's chief interest was in saving the world from the existential threat posed by the inevitable development of a hostile artificial intelligence capable of wiping out humanity, and his primary medium for recruiting people to his cause was a wildly popular, nearly 700,000-word fanfiction called Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality